"I'm thankful this one (in Hobart) didn't cost us as much as what it did in Adelaide."

Wade blamed his missed opportunities on concentration lapses.

In an interesting insight to the pressure he feels, he said not eating enough during Tests because of his nerves could have contributed.

"Once the moment's gone, you think 'was I there, 100 per cent?'.

"That's the question you keep asking yourself," he said.

But the Tasmanian native said while his errors had come closer together than he would have liked, all keepers let chances slip sometimes and it was counterproductive reviewing his mistakes too heavily.

"If I'm going to dwell on that, it's going to eat me up, so I've got to look forward at ways to improve," he said.

Having played his first three Tests in the West Indies, he said the extra pressure playing at home had struck him this summer.

"It gives me so much more respect for people who have been playing Test match cricket for 10 or 15 years and been doing it day in, day out," Wade said.